Wholistic Fitness

SEXUAL CHASTITY, STUDENT INPUT, and….QUOTE OF THE WEEK nabbed by Online Student Sasso!

Long Time WF Goddess Of The Inner Way, Anne “SassoSan” Sasso, a Ph.D has journeyed long and hard with me through the years. Recently, while on the WF Online contemporary classic 3-cycle program; “The Feathered Lizard”, SassoSan has experienced a fundamental spiritual Shift. Her entire “voice” and perspective has Uplifted to the next, quite Seductive, spiritual level of a Awareness where her aptitudes jump with meaning and insight. Her next Shift will be when her not-so-aptitude aspects experience the same Divine Shift…which WILL happen!

I would like to honor my Cherished and hard working SassoSan by sharing some of her most recent InSights…please honor her years of sweat and stillness by reading them with Mindful Appreciation of a true Warrioress and may your own Practice be deepened because of her hard Inner Work.

We share an AMAZING PATH…
the
Path
of
Wholistic Fitness!

i bow to my Beloved Student,
SassoSan!

– coach ilg

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Recent InSights from Student SassoSan’s WF Online Studies;

“Then, as I overcame my resistance and began the practice I began to understand the wisdom.”

“During the practice I find myself in a very quiet place. My mental chatter has stopped and I�m just drifting. By allowing this I feel that I am tuning in more closely to the rhythms of my body, instead of focusing on number of breaths or whatever, I just hang, wait and listen until I feel compelled to shift to the next posture. It feels very relaxed and very organic.”

“What? Don�t all WF warriors shake their Ilg Supreme�s with non-dominant hand? If not, why not? That�s what I want to know.”

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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

~ Albert Einstein

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Noble Ilgbro!
You made my homepage today man–170,000 hits per week staring at your fit mug baby! I’m bringing my own snow shoes back with me to Cali in November to crank some winter chi my feeble self Bro! Keep it cranked.
Namaste’
Ron

www.ronjones.org

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WF ON SEXUAL CHASTITY

WF Online Student:
I think the biggest thing that I am hesitating with is that he is my husband and I have committed to the unity and love of our marriage. As I peal further and learn more about my spirituality and practice WF, I cannot help but wonder how maintaining the fact that we have sanctified our marriage fits in?

Teacher Haku responds:
Right now, is there truly Unity (Yoga) and Love within the sanctification of your marriage? i do not know, this is for you to explore and stand under. if the answer is “yes”, there is nothing to fear, if the answer is “no” there is still nothing to fear. you may wish to sit with this, for a time, before coming to any “conclusions”.

Coach Ilg adds:
“A householder who, while residing at home amidst his wife and children, abandons all attachments
and inwardly treads the path of yoga, ere long sees the signs of success, and then, having mastered
the yoga, lives happily ever after.”
– Chapter V, Verse 264/Sivasamhita
translation; Shyam Ghosh

Student:
Aren�t spirituality and sexuality linked � how can you delve into one without the other when you are a married couple?

Teacher Haku:
yes, they are not only linked, there is no separation. most couples have not Traveled far enough to realize this, and are stuck in the separation of the two. when there is separation there is not Union (Yoga). if sexuality and spirituality are separate in your relationship, how can your WF Practice help erase those lines? having said all that, don’t “think” so much. just attend to the sweat and stillness within your Daily Practice and all will Be as it is to Be.

Coach Ilg adds:
Beautiful Yogini, as Practice deepens, a natural desire toward containment of the vital energies arises. This natural desire to override animal-level releases will reveal to you the Dance between spirituality and sexuality. There is a very fundamental, energetic reason why “sexual chastity” is one of the Hatha Yogic requirements. The ball cannot be handed off to the Raja Yoga (final three limbs of Concentration, Meditation, and Samadhi) until Containment of Vital Energies has been mastered. Do not wander too far into contemplation on this matter, Noble Student. Years from now, we will revISit this aspect of your Practice. i will know when that time has come. Much, much Work to do before then. Place your mental energies somewhere else beside this vein of thought.

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Hi Coach Ilg-
I hope you are well. I have not seen you in a long time. Where are you teaching these days? I recently moved to Tucson and I was wondering if you new of any instructors out here. I took a yoga class recently and it was a disgrace to all yogis! It was more like a acrobatics class for adults entering the circus! No spiritual guidance at all. You are the best teacher I have ever had.

Warmly,
Christina

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Greetings Most Noble Coach,
I just wanted to thank you immensely for your thoughts expressed in October 15th’s direct lines, for in this difficult time I’m currently facing they filled me with strength and clarity. Your Practice Insights really struck a note with me, too, perhaps I needed to read and internalize them.

One thousand blessings to you and Teacher Ananda for showing us a wonderful and truth-filled path, and for being so dedicated to the well-being of others.

And,
“Ooooooooooh man!! Your Snowshoe Ascent of Agassi Peak! That must have been a wonderful experience Coach. I wish I could have been there trecking with you!! Perhaps someday…

You are so blessed, as am I, so isn’t that amazing!!! Life is beautiful, baby, so much so that I went around preaching about cultivating chi last night to a bunch of people I went to high school with who I hadn’t seen in years, and I may have planted some seeds in their minds/souls! Hopefully, anyway.

I also bought a neti pot yesterday and used it this morning, and what a feeling. Jala nati is definitely going to be part of the regular repertoire!

Anywho, thanks for keeping me in the loop, and I think it’s so cool that you’re training for the 2006 National Snowshoe Championships in Vermont this winter! Get Ananda into that!! Unless she is already, that is. I was so pleasantly surprised when I heard her voice on the other end on my phone a few days ago, for she sounded exactely how I had imagined: full of love and yogic light. It was a true treat to talk with her.

That’s all for now. I bow to the fine example of human potential you and Ananda are, and I love that you are my teachers. I TRUST you, and I LOVE you.

Wow, what’s gotten into me today? lol, must be the SUNRIDER herbs…

Kindly,
Andrew

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Beloved Teacher Ananda,
Meditation � Early morning Zazen and WF ritual are getting less �mentally hectic�, still things going on but I can observe a lot more now as opposed to letting myself be carried away with thoughts. General awareness during the day is improving. I am consciously trying to slow down. Especially when I am speaking with others. Make sure I am listening to what they are saying and making sure they have finished what needs to be said before responding. As Coach mentioned in Stream Entry, we are usually to busy cultivating a response or comments to really hear what is being said.
– WF Student Kristi Lees

Teacher Ananda responds:
“The first gift of love is to listen”_ Rumi

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If we were to put our minds to one powerful wisdom method and work with it directly, there is a real possibility we would become enlightened.

Our minds, however, are riddled with confusion and doubt. I sometimes think that doubt is an even greater block to human evolution than is desire or attachment. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence. We have become so falsely �sophisticated� and neurotic that we take doubt itself for truth, and the doubt that is nothing more than ego�s desperate attempt to defend itself from wisdom is deified as the goal and fruit of true knowledge.

This form of mean-spirited doubt is the shabby emperor of samsara, served by a flock of �experts� who teach us not the open-souled and generous doubt that Buddha assured us was necessary for testing and proving the worth of the teachings, but a destructive form of doubt that leaves us nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, and nothing to live by.
– Sogyal Rinpoche